Site server

[GoranZ]

Here we go again... Unplayable

[Lord Arioch]

WTF
its lagging, it is kicking me out all the time... frigging fix it!
totally unplayable!

[GoranZ]

Still lagging and Player profiles are not accessible... Blank page

[aad0906]

People (not me fortunately) missed turns because of this. This morning it was completely jammed up.

[paulycash]

Hey my profile is coming up blank ok thanks

[king achilles]

There was a recent (suspicious) extreme traffic request loads to the forum that were making the site very slow to the point that CC became inaccessible at times. Some parts of the forum has been disabled, which includes accessing profile pages, for the time being until this matter has been resolved. bigWham is working on it.

[GoranZ]

There was a recent (suspicious) extreme traffic request loads to the forum that were making the site very slow to the point that CC became inaccessible at times. Some parts of the forum has been disabled, which includes accessing profile pages, for the time being until this matter has been resolved. bigWham is working on it.

Any news about a fix?

We are missing critical features.

[king achilles]

Unfortunately, the issue is still ongoing,

[t4mcr53s2]

t4mcr53s2: some viewing profiles are back ; hooray

[The Mad Butcher]

so slow today, keep trying to refresh but no joy, whats going on with this site and the lagging?

[GoranZ]

Here we go again... Unplayable

No console log... General Error

[Frox333]

Yeah this is bad.

[TheMissionary]

Must not be enough revenue to care.

[shoop76]

Its really unplayable at the moment.

[SoN!c]

phpBB (the p^latform that drives this site) is reporting massive chinese AI bot attacks

The way to stop them is using free cloudflare it seems:

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2662102&sid=5561af2017951b054d1bf50a409cd162

by CPTOM » Sun Apr 20, 2025 2:00 am

Just in case helpful to others down the road, I turned off attack mode, but left all of Cloudflare's other bot tools in place, and it's virtually eliminated all the AI-bots. At least for me, CLoudflare (free) is working like a champ.

https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/free/

[chipv]

Measures have been put in place, please feedback on the post site lag issues thread

[SoN!c]

Measures have been put in place, please feedback on the post site lag issues thread

Its working real good!

[Lord Arioch]

yeah took about 12 frigging hours and i had to ask for a sitter from US to take my turns for me other than that all is awesome...

[SoN!c]

yeah took about 12 frigging hours and i had to ask for a sitter from US to take my turns for me other than that all is awesome...

Look, the site can't be held responsible for AI bot attacks.. I think they installed countermeasures (cloudflare) asap so what more can you do? First identify the problem then deal with it and they did. This is 2025 real life...shit happens online

[Lord Arioch]

True
Still this as been a ongoing issue of late. And what they can do when its noticed is extend time. I take a bit of pride in not missing turns.
And i couldnt report it ... since i got kicked out all the time. So either a diff way to report isdues or when admin is working on it a heads up that they do.
Like u ssy its 2025... email me

[IcePack]

True
Still this as been a ongoing issue of late. And what they can do when its noticed is extend time. I take a bit of pride in not missing turns.
And i couldnt report it ... since i got kicked out all the time. So either a diff way to report isdues or when admin is working on it a heads up that they do.
Like u ssy its 2025... email me

There is Facebook and discord where you can report if needed as well. But people were reporting already, just took awhile to get ahold of ppl & implement something

As far as extending turns etc I can’t really comment beyond I know in the past they’ve not done it very often

[Lord Arioch]

Well dont expect extended payment after my premum is out

[GoranZ]

yeah took about 12 frigging hours and i had to ask for a sitter from US to take my turns for me other than that all is awesome...

Look, the site can't be held responsible for AI bot attacks.. I think they installed countermeasures (cloudflare) asap so what more can you do? First identify the problem then deal with it and they did. This is 2025 real life...shit happens online

This is wrong, the site is responsible for the security from external attacks. Not using dedicated Cloudflare for cybersecurity and DDoS prevention means the site had inhouse solution(or in our case it didn't) for these types of threats.

P.S. There have always been bots(AI didn't invented them, it only allowed for easier creation). They existed even before the site.